Landfills in California

Introduction

“ Californians throw away 6 pounds of trash every day, equivalent to almost 2200 pounds every year, roughly the weight of a car. ” —— CALPIRG

According to the resource, during the past decade, the annual tonnage of post-recycled municipal solid waste being placed in California’s landfills has increased by almost 50%, and since 2014, its recycling rate has declined from 50% in 2014 to 40%. In addition, more and more countries are banning the United States from exporting solid waste to them because of pollution concerns. Even though the waste problem is getting worse, people still don’t care about it. In order to understand where those waste “going”, I decided to analyze the waste disposal processes and landfills in California counties. Attempts to find out whether each county has sufficient landfills for energy regeneration and whether additional landfills are needed to reduce resource waste from garbage transportation. Finally, the interactive map of regional waste disposal and energy regeneration capacity is created based on California landfill electricity regeneration data.

CA Waste

Part One

Solid Waste Statistics in The Last Decade in CA

By processing a dataset of solid waste in California for the Past Ten Years, make a chart and analyze the overall situation of California’s waste disposal.

CA Waste 09-19

The Growth of the data about disposal of solid waste in CA in recent years according to the graph.

CA Waste Growth

Analyzing CA’s solid waste Exports, Imports, and Intrastate Transformation in recent years through the graph.

CA Waste Transformation

Calculate the annual solid waste recycling rate according to the formula (annual waste reuse volume / annual waste disposal volume)

CA Waste ReuseRate

Create a graph to show annual reuse rate of solid waste in CA. Through observation, the reuse rate of solid waste in CA has been Decreasing in recent years.

CA Waste ReuseRate

Continued lower waste reuse rates indicate that California needs more efficient landfills for waste reuse.

Part Two

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